Meetings will be hybrid, Zoom and in person until further notice. Join us at Little America at noon for a meeting that starts at 12:15. To join a Membership meeting with Zoom, follow the meetings information below.
Cheyenne National Cemetery Arboretum presentation and tour
May 26, 2021
Timothy Sheppard, ED Wyoming Veteran's Commission
Cheyenne National Cemetery Arboretum presentation and tour.
The program will start at 1200 with a presentation about the new Cheyenne National Cemetery. The cemetery will serve the burial needs of more than 22,000 Veterans, their spouses and eligible family members for the next 40+ years. We will then travel out to the High Plains Arboretum for the planting of Two Burr Oak trees in honor of club members Past Secretary Teresa Moore and Past President Robin Sims. This sixty-two acre public arboretum is located on the former historic USDA High Plains Horticulture Station, west of Warren Air Force Base. Many hardy trees, shrubs, and flowers were developed here for survival on the High Plains. Once the planting is completed members can tour the Arboretum and the Cheyenne National Cemetery.
For those Zooming in, we will be broadcasting until about 1230 when we depart for the Arboretum and National Cemetery.
ZOOM MEETING INFORMATION:
If you want to say, "Hi!" and catch up with each other before the meeting, please "join" the virtual meeting any time after 11:45. You will be able to unmute yourself and connect for about fifteen minutes. When you first join the meeting, you will be in a "waiting room" and we will let you in as soon as we can. At 12:00, we'll get the meeting started. This will only be a 20 minute presentation.
TO JOIN A ROTARY CLUB OF CHEYENNE MEETING FROM A COMPUTER, TABLET OR SMART PHONE
Or download the Zoom app from your App Store (iPhone) or Google Play (android) and create an account for future use. Then click the + Join button, and enter the Meeting ID: 890 5263 9939, password: 065537
Stig Hallingbye was our Consider a Rotarian last week. Stig is the Market President for First State Bank in Cheyenne and Laramie. First State started as Security 1st Savings and Loan here in Cheyenne in 1979 and thru merger and acquisition became First State Bank. They have six locations in Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado doing both consumer and commercial banking. Their major goals are to serve the local communities but they also have customers across the country.
First State is involved in many community efforts, mainly championing the YMCA, Cheyenne Symphony, United Way, the Cheyenne Rotary Club and others.
Stig has enjoyed his many years as a banker but as a young man he had wanted to be a dairy farmer and a professional ski jumper.
The Club will be planting apple trees at the High Plains Arboretum on the 25th of May starting at 1 PM. We will be planting 30 trees and need a team of Rotarians to help. Please show up at the Arboretum at 1:00 if you can make it.
The Cheyenne Rotary Club was honored at the 2021 District Conference as the best large club (greater than 50 members) in the district.
The Rotary Club of Cheyenne, demonstrated everything that this year’s logo, “Rotary Opens Opportunities” was meant to include. The Club took the lead for the virtual meeting platform, opening the opportunity for members and guests to maintain our connections from the very beginning of the pandemic, and then led the way to safely returning to in-person hybrid meetings. Throughout the pandemic, this club has maintained a consistent membership number. A $100,000 grant from Microsoft TechSpark program opened the opportunity to install about 50 GutterBins which will assist with improving the ground water quality both in Cheyenne and downstream throughout the mid-west. Partnering with a local business, the Rotary Club of Cheyenne opened a door to providing a new free online computer coding class to high school students throughout Wyoming. Through a partnership with the City, Rotary will be planting trees in the apple orchard to help refurbish the Cheyenne Arboretum; a perfect tie in to an ongoing multi-club project to provide character development books and programs to every 2nd grader in Laramie County through the “Andy and Elmer’s Apple Dumpling Adventure” project. Additional Club funds have been used to support other local non-profits that are meeting the needs of our community. Rotary members actively participate in District leadership, including strong leadership of the District’s Cowboy Country Youth Exchange. Forty eight percent of the club’s 163 members hold Paul Harris Fellowship designation, and 10% of club members are members of the Paul Harris Society. Combined with donation directly from the Club and from individual members, this club gave an average of over $150/member to TRF (Annual Fund plus Polio Plus). Through the Rotary Club of Cheyenne, Rotary does open opportunities - for our local community, the world at large, and for Rotary members.
The After Hours Rotary Club of Cheyenne was honored as the best small club (less than 50 members) in the district.
Here's another reason to look forward to 2021! A chance to win a new 2021 Ford Bronco Sport or $20,000! See Cheyenne Rotary's Facebook page or visit Spradley Barr Motor for more info about this sporty 4x4 vehicle. Buy your raffle tickets online here or from any Rotary Club of Cheyenne member. $50 each, or 3 for $100. To get the 3-ticket deal, click here. Cheyenne Rotary Ford Bronco Raffle Tickets - 3 for $100
THANK YOU Spradley Barr for your generous donation of this new release from Ford! All proceeds will go to the Cheyenne Rotary Club Foundation and add to the impact of Rotary's charitable work in Cheyenne. Help Cheyenne Rotary build the endowment to reach the $1million goal and ensure sustainable local community service indefinitely!
First Place Prize: 2021 Ford Bronco Sport or $20,000
Second Place: $1,000
Third Place: $500
Drawing on June 2, 2021. Title, taxes, insurance extra. All sales final.
To purchase raffle tickets by mail, please send a check by May 31, 2021, to:
Cheyenne Rotary Club Foundation
P.O.Box 511, Cheyenne, WY 82003-0511
Include a note with the name, address and phone number that you would like included on each ticket, as well as the mailing address that you would like the tickets mailed back to. For questions or to buy tickets over the phone, call 307-773-0355.
Per IRS, the cost of raffle tickets purchased from nonprofit entities is not deductible as a charitable contribution.
By building on a proven concept — such as efforts to stamp out malaria in Zambia — Rotary’s new multimillion-dollar Programs of Scale grants help make good better.
The Otto and Fran Walter Foundation has pledged $15.5 million to The Rotary Foundation to start a Rotary Peace Center in the Middle East or North Africa.
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